The X-men run missions and work together with the NYPD, striving to maintain a peaceful balance between humans and mutants. When it comes to a fight, they won't back down from protecting those who need their help.
Haven presents itself as a humanitarian organization for activists, leaders, and high society, yet mutants are the secret leaders working to protect and serve their kind. Behind the scenes they bring their goals into reality.
From the time when mutants became known to the world, SUPER was founded as a black-ops division of the CIA in an attempt to classify, observe, and learn more about this new and rising threat.
The Syndicate works to help bring mutantkind to the forefront of the world. They work from the shadows, a beacon of hope for mutants, but a bane to mankind. With their guiding hand, humanity will finally find extinction.
Since the existence of mutants was first revealed in the nineties, the world has become a changed place. Whether they're genetic misfits or the next stage in humanity's evolution, there's no denying their growing numbers, especially in hubs like New York City. The NYPD has a division devoted to mutant related crimes. Super-powered vigilantes help to maintain the peace. Those who style themselves as Homo Superior work to tear society apart for rebuilding in their own image.
MRO is an intermediate to advanced writing level original character, original plot X-Men RPG. We've been open and active since October of 2005. You can play as a mutant, human, or Adapted— one of the rare humans who nullify mutant powers by their very existence. Goodies, baddies, and neutrals are all welcome.
Short Term Plots:Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
The Fountain of Youth
A chemical serum has been released that's shaving a few years off of the population. In some cases, found to be temporary, and in others...?
MRO MOVES WITH CURRENT TIME: What month and year it is now in real life, it's the same for MRO, too.
Fuegogrande: "Fuegogrande" player of The Ranger, Ion, Rhia, and Null
Neopolitan: "Aly" player of Rebecca Grey, Stephanie Graves, Marisol Cervantes, Vanessa Bookman, Chrysanthemum Van Hart, Sabine Sang, Eupraxia
Ongoing Plots
Magic and Mystics
After the events of the 2020 Harvest Moon and the following Winter Solstice, magic has started manifesting in the MROvere! With the efforts of the Welldrinker Cult, people are being converted into Mystics, a species of people genetically disposed to be great conduits for magical energy.
The Welldrinker Cult
A shadowy group is gaining power, drawing in people who are curious, vulnerable, or malicious, and turning them into Mystics. They are recruiting people into their ranks to spread the influence of magic in the world, but for what end goal?
Are They Coming for You?
There have been whispers on the streets lately of a boogeyman... mutant and humans, young and old, all have been targets of trafficking.
Adapteds
What if the human race began to adapt to the mutant threat? What if the human race changed ever so subtly... without the x-gene.
Atlanteans
The lost city of Atlantis has been found! Refugees from this undersea mutant dystopia have started to filter in to New York as citizens and businessfolk. You may make one as a player character of run into one on the street.
Got a plot in mind?
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Magnets, Ninja's and Bugs--OH MY! (Agnes, Rebecca)
Seyta looked towards the towers that loomed over them. Even from this distance it was obvious how massive they were. and ther was the buzzing... You could almost feel it in the air, and you could actually feel it in the ground. She and Rebecca had met two people who lived even farther back than they where. After some persuasion the only advice they received was to not try. Whoever was in control of those towers was not someone you wanted to cross.
Despite the warnings however Seyta was eyeing the land around the hives. From here she could see partial items that would have been torn apart for scrap anywhere else in the city. Hopefully there was other goodies hidden among them. All Rebecca and Seyta needed to do was avoid all the bugs. "So... Any Idea how we want to do this?
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The towers were... definitely an impressive sight the closer they got to them. There was no doubt in her mind that Agnes was the resident of the towers, but she was slightly intimidated wondering how exactly her frail ex-girlfriend managed to create even one of those constructs.
Talking to others, it was quickly apparent that Rebecca was not the only one to find the hive towers intimidating. No one would get close to them, and some seemed to dislike even talking about them.
Against the advice of pretty much anyone they came across, Rebecca and Seyta managed to push on until the towers and the treasures at their base were coming into clear sight.
"Solid question." If they were going through Seyta's plan, where the two scavenged the area around the hives, they needed a clear plan that would keep them hidden and safe. Unknown to Seyta was Rebecca's true intention, which did not require safety and subtlety at all.
Seyta was pretty nice, and definitely innocent enough in the eyes of Rebecca that she did not ideally want to make Seyta a casualty of her own personal gripes. "Daes your stealthiness ability work against non-humans, or would those swarms notice you?"
The queen was silent as she stood in her chamber, looking out over the spire-filled landscape of her domain. Another night had gone by without her sleeping, but the young queen was feeling none of the adverse effects of it. Instead, she felt more alert, more connected with her mass of insects that mulled about. The walls twittered with the scrapings of hundreds, millions, of tiny feet as they moved about with purpose. They were relating messages from down below.
Peering out her window, she tilted her head as she looked at the living mass that created the ground below her towers. The insects were always moving, always seeking some place new and making sure that the domain of their queen was undisturbed. Agnes, so far, was pleased with everything that she was hearing. Nobody had attempted to step onto her lands since a dog, a pitiful beast, had wandered in by mistake.
Her minions made a fine enough feast out of it.
Wings fluttered around as she turned away from the window and began to stroll away. She was bare of all clothing now, seeing no real sense in it anymore. That…girl, the winged one, she had not come by in awhile now. She couldn’t remember what the last visit entailed, therefore it obviously was not important. Whatever the case, the only reason she ever put on those rags was to present some semblance of modesty to the gray girl…
Gray…Girl…
…Gray…
…Grey…Girl…?
She blinked and shook her head as she turned away from whatever thoughts attempted to sneak back into her head. The memories of her former life were melting away far quicker now and it was painful to try to keep them from doing such. Quietly she let the droning of her minions echo into her ears. It was comforting, to know that so many depended on you, trusted in you to lead them. It proved that she was never alone.
Fingers barely grazing her hips, the soft footed woman casually made her way over to a small throne made out of the same material of the walls. She paused as she looked above the throne to find a small trinket made out of metal. It dangled and reflexed the light into her eyes. It looked almost like…a charm bracelet. She paused to stare at it, the word GREY trying to bound back into her mind. But, in the end, she managed to drown it out. Delicately she sat upon the rough material of the throne and closed her eyes. Wings pressed against her back, the Queen of Swarms leaned back against the wall and listened closer to the sounds within the walls.
Her subjects, her brood, her…family…chattered incessantly in her sensitive ears. In the solitude of her throne room, Agnes listened quietly and awaited any news that would require her attention…
.>> "Daes your stealthiness ability work against non-humans, or would those swarms notice you?"
"Yes and no. I have a range, right around twenty five feet." Seyta glanced over the towers, pulling her tarp closer around herself protectively. "Anything outside that will have no trouble finding me. Something tells me that there are more bugs in there than my field will cover, so its probably safer to stay away from any swarms we find as best we can."
Bugs really weren't an issue after working for Roach as long as she had. Maybe it was the massive towers but something just felt...off to Seyta. This wasn't just a large bee's nest, or ant hill; these towers where home to something truly powerful. If the promise of untouched goods wasn't such a strong appeal Seyta would mark this as a place to always avoid in the future.
"I might have an idea though. You can move metal around... maybe there is a car hiding around somewhere. Unless its too heavy we could probably use it for cover if we want to try and get inside." Or they could throw the proverbial car sized rock at the giant hive and hope not to be stung to death. Seyta grinned slightly at the silent joke, until it actually made some sense. Wasps swarmed when you hit the nest with anything. Unless they knew where the threat was and then they attacked it. If they damaged one tower and went to a different one, they might be safe for a few minutes at least. Best too keep that idea to herself since it also made for a good plan to escape with. She didn't want to leave Rebecca behind after having an almost normal conversation during their trip, but, survival of the fittest.
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It would have been more convenient if Seyta could have just stood around and avoided the attention of the swarms entirely. Rebecca was assessing her options, trying to decide if there was a plan of action that did not involve sacrificing Seyta as collateral damage. The possibilities seeming slim, Rebecca was about ready to shrug and continue, disregarding her aspirations of keeping her companion safe.
>> "I might have an idea though. You can move metal around... maybe there is a car hiding around somewhere. Unless its too heavy we could probably use it for cover if we want to try and get inside."
That... was actually a really good idea. Rebecca scanned the area, and as luck would have it, she could feel a large metal shape under the ground. She smirked at the stipulation. "Heh, too heavy." The ground around them shook as the shell of an old minivan tore through the earth and broke through the surface.
The doors opened and dirt and sand poured out of the vehicle. Rebecca aided Seyta in stepping into the hovering van.
Once her new friend was safely in her seat, Rebecca closed the door. It was at that point that her facade faded, her eyes looking through the window with genuine remorse. "Ah'm sorry Seyta. Ah wasnae entirely honest with you." Understatement of the apocalyptic century. "That lover that broke my trust? She's in those towers.
"And Ah'm sorry... bit now Ah hae tae get her attention." With her apologies out of the way, Rebecca levitated the vehicle several yards into the air. It was going to be a distraction holding the van in the air, but the least she could do after betraying Seyta was to keep her out of the fray.
Rebecca found pieces of scrap metal scattered around her, calling them toward her.. The scraps clashed together around her, creating a metal shell around her. Now in a basic level of defense, it was time to garner her ex-girlfriend's attention.
An act Rebecca would achieve by hurling a giant metal pillar into the wall of a hive tower, crushing the wall with a thunderous crash.
The peaceful hum of her generations and generations of protectors buzzed into her ears, warming her from the inside out and making her feel safe and loved, in way that no human had ever done before. Agnes was enjoying this, reveling in the sounds of her family as they scurried about and reported to her everything that happened in her lands. This moment was probably the most content she had been a long time. Maybe it was because she was listening to her brethren more closely, maybe it was because she no longer harbored thoughts of humanity, whatever it was, it was peaceful.
The world made so much sense now. She had her place, just like every single one of her subjects did. There was a place and an order to the world that she maintained. Humans only sought to destroy and change the world around them. They forced conformity when it suited them, not when nature was ready for it.
It was blasphemy. The explosions, the smoke, the fire, they were a good thing. Agnes was sure of that now. People died by the droves but it was necessary for the peace and tranquility that the world finally returned t—
SMASH!!![/b]
Agnes had scarcely opened her eyes at the sound of the crash when suddenly she was nearly overwhelmed by the reports coming in from her subjects. They were scurrying, scrambling, trying to escape and rally their forces at whatever it was that attacked them. Agnes clutched her chest where she felt the steady buzzing of her royal guard. The royal guard were insects that Agnes breed herself, mixing the deadliest insects for as many generations as she could in the past three years until she came up with something truly horrific.
They were eager to escape and protect their queen. But they were a last resort and she didn’t want to risk losing them so early.
Steadily the reports chittered and scratched into her mind from all about. A black, humming cloud of flying insects (wasps, flies, beetles, bees) launched themselves at the nearest abnormality they could find, an encased metal object and hovered through the air. Already a huge pillar had struck on of Agnes’s towers, cracking it and revealing the thick combs inside. Honey spewed forth as maggots and other legless, wingless masses flopped out into the exposure.
The insects sought revenge for this injustice, while Agnes screamed and cried over the fallen young that never had a chance to live. She snarled as she clenched her fist, fed up with the quivering slime that was humanity and all the attempts it made to encroach on her lands. Moving onto her two feet, Agnes boiled over as her wings fluttered madly and carried her to the nearest window. From there she peered out into the open air and sought the being that dared attack her in her realm.
Once she was facing the open air, she suddenly opened her mouth and screamed the most primordial and insect-like screech that would have deafened anyone too close. It was a call to open war. Blankets of insects began to spill out of hives, surging through openings and crawling over one another before taking to the air and blocking out the sun.
It took Seyta a moment to realize Rebecca wasn't getting into the van as well. The list of profanity launched in Rebecca's direction ended rather quickly as she heard Becca speak up.
>> "Ah'm sorry Seyta. Ah wasnae entirely honest with you. That lover that broke my trust? She's in those towers. And Ah'm sorry... bit now Ah hae tae get her attention."
Seyta sat there, glaring at Rebecca for a few moments, watching her cover herself in armor before aiming a pillar at the towers. Her eyes widened in realization; Rebecca was actually protecting her and going through with the distraction plan she had mentioned. AS the pillar crashed into the tower Seyta watched the reation of the hives with awe and fear.
---------a few miles away---------
Three figures looked up from their work at the sound of the crash. A throbbing hum moved through the air as they looked on towards the hive towers. The clouds of insects where large enough to bee seen from that distance. As the clouds grew larger the figures all turned and ran, one of them letting out several sharp loud whistles. A warning to anyone nearby to run, the hive was angry, run and hope that you get away.
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Seyta watched as bugs swarmed around the damaged pillar. Millions of creatures...hundreds of millions. The screech that came next name her cover her ears. As the sound stopped she looked to Rebecca with some concern.
Except she couldn't see Rebecca at first. There was no light to see her with. Glancing up Seyta saw the mass of insects, completely covering the sky above the towers."This...was a bad idea..."
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The reaction of the swarm was something Rebecca had anticipated, though she was quite possibly not generous enough when estimating numbers and aggression levels. There was no sky; it was blotted out by raging insects.
The metal egg Rebecca made herself was not practical for her purposes, so she crunched the metal inward, molding it toward herself, creating a metal armor that was more human-shaped.
The swarm came toward her like a coursing river. As much as Rebecca would miss her sight, she had to shift the metal covering her face so it blocked her eyes. Being able to see would have been useless if her eyes were gouged out by hornets.
Now blind, it was like Rebecca was caught in history's worst hail storm. The bugs were hitting her armor with such force that she could feel the thudding through the two inch thick metal.
Relying on her metal sense alone, there was only so much she could pick up; there was the van in the air with (she imagined) an angry Seyta inside, there were her pillars hovering around her like guardians, swatting at insect clouds, (at least she hoped,) and there were scraps of metal and items strewn across the ground.
And just small enough to be barely picked up by her sense, there was a small metal item within the tower.
There was no reason for any insect to be playing with some metal trinket, so it was easy to assume who the item would belong to. Rebecca prepared two of her columns, firing them like torpedoes at the hive wall, near the presence of Agnes's metal bobble, whatever it might be.
Her voice would not be heard, concealed by her metal mask, but she spoke anyway. Come out and play, lover.
The reports were flooding in and all of it didn’t any sense. The majority of what she could gather was that something, or someone, was attacking the hives. She tried to see what they saw, to listen to their incessant chattering but whenever she tried to focus in on it, the insects were killed or sent scattering like ashes in the wind. So far all she knew was that her realm, her children, were being attacked and she was simply not going to just lie back and let it happen.
Despite the danger to herself, Agnes boldly stepped forward, onto the railing of her window and stood, looking out over the expanse of her kingdom as she tilted, precariously on the ledge. The air smell dirty, as the soil from her collapsed hives began to fly throughout the air. She tilted her head, attempting to listen in on more of the chatter when suddenly she caught a swift movement out of the corner of her eye. The panicked screeches of her subjects tore through her mind as she attempted to make sense of their warnings, but it was a second too late.
SMASH!!![/b]
She barely saw the projectile in time to step lightly off the railing and began to fall. It was metal, huge, and it came barreling with the intention to destroy anything in its path. Her whole hive shook, but it didn’t fall. Hers was built with protection, her subjects demanded it since she was the queen; though, now, an unsightly pillar was sticking out of its side.
The swarm queen free fell until suddenly her wings beat so fast that it balanced her out in mid-air. Angrily she flew upwards, eyeing the area around her in search of whoever was the culprit behind this attack. As she buzzed and flew past another of the hives, she spotted it; metal in the shape of one of those lowly humans.
Her teeth bared, she hovered momentarily as she watched the being of metal lash out and sending those infernal pillars to swat and strike down her brethren. Anger seethed through the young queen as she glared: no one came into her house disrespected her like this. Her eyes widened and suddenly she let out another primordial screech that echoed through the hive towers.
Suddenly every available flying insect was picking up every type of ant that was in her world. Beetles, flies, wasps, dragonflies, they all were carrying as many ants as they could (as per their queen’s instruction) and carried them as high as they could. They swerved in and around the metal being and dropped their payload of ants on not only the invader, but the vehicle that was floating nearby. Soon, both creatures would be swarmed over by ants of every dangerous and deadly type as they crawled and climbed, seeking out any and every single minuscule opening that they could find; and find them they would.
Meanwhile, after her screech (and in order to distract her attacker long enough to get the ants onto her), Agnes hovered into view, high above the metal beings. Her naked, honey smeared body glistened in the shafts of light that were able to peek through the clouds of swarms that bloated out the sun. The greenish hue to her skin made her look sickly, yet, at the same time, she looked like the most dangerous being on the planet.
Wings beating furiously, she snarled as she eyed the faceless attacker; the queen had officially ridden into battle…
Seyta watched the swarm begin its attack. Terror was far too weak a word to describe what she felt. She pulled the tar-cloak tighter around herself, huddling on the seat. A second screech came, this one closer. Moments later she felt the van being attacked.
Seyta's eyes where clamped shut, but it sounded like hail on the metal of the van. Added to the buzzing, chirping, clicking and squeaking Seyta actually found herself completely cut off from the fight outside. Then she started to feel them...
Opening her eyes slightly Seyta stifled a scream. Ants where swarming through the van. Even over Seyta. She was spared from their bites and stings only by the grace of her mutation. It didn't matter what higher intelligence controled them, ants had very tiny minds. Even the millions surrounding her were likely under her influence. Unaware that they where standing on the very thing they were being told to kill.
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Rebecca's blindness was difficult to compensate for in battle, but her counter-measures were still in the plotting process, and it was not easy to plot with the instinctual fear of being surrounded by insects.
Her instincts went into red alert when she could feel squirming and crawling underneath her armor. The fear impulse was only made worse by Rebecca's inability to know what had invaded her armor. As the ants began biting into her flesh, Rebecca could feel stinging and burning across small areas of her skin, and they would only find more minuscule entryways if she did not act quickly.
Every bite was causing her survival instinct to trigger a magnetic response. The metal constricted, tightening against her skin, cutting her skin in some places, but thankfully also crushing some of the ant invaders.
She would not survive if she remained in the cloud of death, and her instincts were not failing her yet, (if she disregarded her self-imposed wounds,) so she listened to the one impulse that was shouting in her head:
UP.
Rebecca willed her metal form as high as she could as fast as she could. She dropped all but one of her pillars, choosing to focus as much of her energy on her survival and the van she was hoping repelled the ants. As Rebecca reached new heights, the density of the swarm was thinning out. By the time she finally stopped, she was high enough that there were only maybe a hundred bugs nearby, which was much more manageable. Confident that she could protect her face and eyes, Rebecca shifted her mask, creating an opening for her mismatched eyes.
Now that she could see, she looked down into the monstrous swarm. Did Agnes notice her ascent? Rebecca moved the metal away from her mouth just long enough to shout out, defying good sense. "I remember when you would have have been ashamed of personifying PESTILENCE!"
Rebecca had a flash of nostalgia, remembering her first kiss with Agnes before they barely escaped Malachi. She quickly shook the memory lane stroll out of her head.
With the benefit of site, Rebecca was tossing her pillar around, splitting it into two segments to crush flying infantry between two heavy metal colliders. The metal around her was still constricting, trying to kill off the remaining ants gnawing at her flesh. Rebecca was not sure if the bites were fatal, so she had to hasten the battle. She was prepared to die in their final fight, but she would not be doing it alone.
The move had paid off. As Agnes hovered in the air, she narrowed her eyes at the pair of creatures that were floating through the air. She could see that the one in the van was fine; for whatever reason her insects were not attacking the human. Agnes could only marvel at this sight, wondering what could possibly be keeping her minions from attacking the person. But, quickly, her attention was pulled away from it when she noted that the second being, the more active one, was descending higher into the sky.
Agnes smiled to herself. She could feel every bite that they delivered to her pray and listened as they chattered, trying to let her know what they were seeing. All she could gather was that there was some human inside of that shell of metal, a female, that tasted sweet but also was flavored with rage.
A tilt in her head and Agnes turned her gaze as the creature hovered higher into the air. She was pulling away from the swarms and, only when she was safe, where eyeholes made into the mask of metal that adorned her head.
>> "I remember when you would have have been ashamed of personifying PESTILENCE!"[/color]
That…creature DARED to address her? Agnes found this act of impunity as one of the most damning. Her teeth clenched, her arms uncrossed from her bare chest as she tightened her balled up fists. All she ever wanted was to be left alone, to live in peace as far away from the filth of humanity as possible! And the second of those uppity humans dares to step into her realm, she does so under the banner of war and with poison upon her lips?!
Nose wrinkled in disgust, Agnes hovered nearly a hive and pulled out a long, hard (yet weathered looking baton from the mound. In a time she couldn’t remember, authority figures carried weapons such as this. Agnes, paranoid of invasion, always kept a weapon or two hidden in her top most hives. Hives only she could reach.
She brandished the weapon as a more feral appearance overtook her expression.
“**** you,” she hissed. Agnes was so angry that she couldn’t focus on the words or the lack of sense they made. To her, they were just ramblings that added insult to injury. “You come into my house, you attack my children, my home, and infest it with your disgusting humanity, and you dare speak to me?!”
The buzzing in her chest became so loud that it would have been hard to hear anything else around them. The royal guard was even more riled up. There was no doubt that when they came out, whatever they saw first was going to die. Her wings fluttering hard and fast, Agnes buzzed closer to her attacker, but veered off at the last second just to knock her off balance before buzzing around behind her.
“GET OUT!!!” she shrieked as she struck as hard as she could with the baton, but, at the same time, summoned as many flying insects as she could to join the fight. The baton may not exactly do much against metal, but whoever was inside of it, she would make their ears ring…
The van seemed to intensify the buzzing around her. Seyta could hear the shouting outside but not what was being said. She had her own problems to worry about anyway. The ants were still crawling everywhere.
She had pulled her shirt over her face to keep them from getting at her eyes ears and nose. Places they might notice her from. But that wasn't quite enough as several managed to crawl over her face anyway.
The hardest part for her was trying no to thrash about as the thousands of ants crawled over each other and herself. Her arms, her legs, chest, back, hair. A writhing mass if tickling, and itching legs filled the van. It took all of her will power not to try crushing them all. If she did, then they would find her and kill her.
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Agnes bursted out of the swarm clouds and into the sky with Rebecca, and she was... very naked. And unless the light was playing tricks on Rebecca's eyes or Agnes had some bizarre tan, she was probably covered in honey. Rebecca was in a fight to the death with her dripping-in-honey naked ex-girlfriend. Weird day.
Rebecca took a swing at Agnes as she approached quickly, but her metal form was too bulky to match the nimble nymph, who dodged her easily and struck her in the head with a baton.
No real "damage" was done through the helm, but Agnes definitely "rang her bell" as American footballers used to call it, dazing Rebecca for a moment. "You B****!" Rebecca's columns assaulted Agnes, even if she was clearly too quick to hit; she had to at least keep her on her toes. "Ah never wanted this! You ruined everything!"
Rebecca launched herself like a missile, fist-first at Agnes. "Why did you hae tae go tae him?" Sebastian flashed in her mind, and her rage grew.
Agnes struck and struck that metal head over again, ringing it like a bell and hoping that whoever was inside was going to suffer from some massive migraine. Well, she really didn’t care if they had a migraine, she was going to make sure that, in the end, that they died for this intrusion onto her lands. No one had the right to come and spoil her world for absolutely no reason, no one!
>> "You B****! Ah never wanted this! You ruined everything!"[/color]
In the thralls of death, Agnes had heard many such accusations before. People loved to blame her for their deaths when they were the ones who should have known better than to trespass. But Agnes was suspicion of this one. He truly didn’t understand anything that the woman in the metal shell was say. It was like she was accusing her; but of what, she didn’t know. The voice, the trembling rage, all of it was pointed at her with such vindictiveness that Agnes could only assume that whoever this person was, she came here with the intention to harm her.
Metal pillars, flashing in the low sun, slashed lazily across the sky. Easily Agnes had managed to spin and swerve around them, fluttering about since those pillars were far too heavy and slow to actually land a blow on her. With the gracefulness of a ballerina, Agnes wove in-between them and just out of harms way.
But, in doing so, she saw the metal maiden fly at her, fist poised to strike.
>> "Why did you hae tae go tae him?"[/color]
Momentarily Agnes froze. To him? It was easy to see that the queen of swarms was confused by this. Her crystal blue eyes, which had shined with a ferocity unknown only moments ago, now dimmed slightly in thought. It was almost as if she had heard this exact accusation before, but why? And from where? Who was “him”? Who was this person attacking her now?
Agnes blinked as she just barely managed to return to reality. The screeching and crying in her ears from her gathered children had sobered her up just in time to see the barreling, metallic missile that was aimed for her heart. The woman in metal obviously meant business.
A hiss escaped between her teeth as Agnes just barely managed to spin to the side. Had she stayed there a second longer, there would have been no doubt that her attacker would have struck her straight in the chest. But, her turning at just the right moment had managed to change that into a solid punch onto her shoulder.
Agnes ground her teeth and growled as she felt the pain explode around her shoulder. Momentarily she saw only stars but that was quickly changed to red when she felt the cry of her insects shriek out for her safety. She was not going to let them down.
Snarling, Agnes hovered as she shrieked and called more insects to her. The cloud was thick behind her as suddenly she took charge, fluttering as fast as she could towards the metal monstrosity. But before she got to close, and keeping an eye on the metal pillars, Agnes suddenly ushered a command…and was engulfed in a swarming cloud of black, thick insects. Instantly the queen disappeared inside the ranks as they charged for the attacker.
Then, unseen, Agnes managed to fly up and above the metal creature, scorpions and spiders crawling along her arms. As she did so, Agnes suddenly dropped down onto the attacker, using her cloud of insects as a distraction so that the Queen to fall suddenly, diving like an eagle and dropping her most poisonous brood on the creature’s head.
She saw the eyeholes. Those became the targets for her most deadliest.
